Posted on 11/17/2015 5:25:07 PM PST by jazusamo
In the wee hours of July 4, FBI counterterrorism agents in the Boston area scrambled to thwart the last of a string of Islamic State terror plots they feared could be conducted during the patriotic holiday or soon after.
Just weeks earlier, an agent and Boston officers had shot and killed an ISIS sympathizer on the same streets, right before he boarded a bus armed with a military-style knife and plans to attack cops and behead a woman.
Officials familiar with the bureau's preparations, speaking only on condition of anonymity, said Director James Comey has put a brave public face on the bureau's fight against ISIS that masks significant tensions behind the scenes with the Obama administration.
Bureau officials are deeply worried they don't have enough resources to track a growing number of radicalized Americans inspired by the Islamic State, with more possibly entering as President Obama opens the borders to thousands of Syrian refugees.
Now, an undercover operative set up a weapons buy on the streets with a young Massachusetts man, the son of a respected cop but now someone who had been radicalized by the Islamic State. Agents believed he was plotting to shoot or blow up students at an out-of-state campus with bombs laced with Styrofoam, which sticks to skin and worsens the burns.
The buy went down, the young man was arrested and a search of his apartment quickly confirmed agents' fears.
The harrowing ending to the two Boston cases this summer seemed ripped from a Hollywood movie script -- except the threats were real and the consequences of stumbling could have been lethal.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I would say they’d target the golf courses to achieve their objectives but then I remembered he’s their pal...
Lemme guess. They want more $$$$$$ to ‘keep us safe’.
At the same time we’re shipping anonymous Syrian muslims over willy nilly. In the name of “compassion”.
If it weren’t for FR I’d feel like the last sane person in the world.
Two big things back to back: The bombing of the Russian plane and the multi-site mass murder crimes in Paris.
There was a bombing in Beirut before that. I don’t know if that was connect (forget).
There have been isolated events here, like the crazy student who stabbed a bunch of people in California.
It seems they are stepping things up.
The budget must be stopped and the government SHUT DOWN until obama stops this import or terrorist into OUR country. Obama is a traitor. He must be stopped!! SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN!!
No DAMNED MOSLEMS!!
We should have eliminated the islamo scum when they arrived.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjkLf_X88WM
Fun song, but not sure I get your point.
We’re going to need armed patriots to guard malls, theaters, other events like the upcoming Star Wars premiere and Christmas season, as many folks did in front of military recruiting stations all over U.S. after terrorist attack in Chattanooga, TN.
Isis is contained. I bin tole.
There will be an attack.
Refugees will be involved.
Democrats will be slaughtered at the polls.
Rinos will rule.
Unless Cruz or maybe Trump.
There will be an attack.
Refugees will be involved.
Democrats will be slaughtered at the polls.
Rinos will rule.
Unless Cruz or maybe Trump.
wait a minute... didn't the enema nozzle head of the fbi's just say it was unpossible???
Yep, The Won thinks he’s another Johnny Carson.
Amen to that.
You’ve got the first part right, don’t know about the unpossible.
I'm 2500 miles from any high value US target. Considering the current expressed attitudes of the Left toward the Right, I'm good with ISIS butchering several hundred Democrats.
If they want to flatten DC, it's not like it's MY government. That train left the station in 1968, with the Kennedy Gun Grab, Viet Nam, Chicago government, the 1973 oil embargo.
bfl
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